Eyeglasses.



No. 677,996. Patented July 9, l90l. G. KLEINEBT.

EYEGLASSES.

(Application filed Jan. 52, 1901.) '(No Model.)

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GEORG KLEINERT, on DRESDEN, GERMANY.

EYEGLASSES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Iletter's Patent No. 677,996, dated July 9,1901.

Application filed January 22, 1901. Serial No. 44,259,. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORG KLEINERT, merchant, a subject of the Emperorof Germany, and a resident of Dresden, Saxony, Germany, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Eyeglasses; and I declare that thefollowing is a full and clear description of same.

My invention relates to pince-nez or eye glasses adapted to be supportedand retained upon the wearers nose by pads secured between the twolenses and forced toward each other by a spring bridge-piece.

The object of the invention is to provide means for changing the padseasily and quickly and also for changing the bearingsurface of the padswithout removing the pads from their retainers.

To this end the invention includes a shaft or spindle secured to theframe of each lens, pads having a plurality of bearingrsurfaces turnablymounted on said spindles, and a spring bridge-piece provided with endscoacting with the spindles to retain the pads in place.

The accompanying drawings represent the invention. Figure 1 showseyeglasses with the two pads. Fig. 2 shows the eyeglasses, one of thepads being removed. Fig. 3 represents the pad.

To the frame of each lens the lower end of a spindle a is secured, uponwhich are journaled pads 6, having a plurality of bearing faces. Eachpad may be provided with an interior bearing-sleeve. When the pads aremounted on the spindles, their lower ends rest against collars 3. Thespring-bridge e is provided with free spring ends d, extending beyondthe connections between said bridge and lens-frames. Each end isprovided with an opening adapted to receive the end of the adjacentspindle. These spring ends press upon the upper ends of the pads andretain them in place.

If the parts of the pads touching the nose are moistened by theperspiration of the skin, one may easily turn the pads that the dryparts of same lie near the nose. The chang ing of such a pad is readilyefiected by lifting the end 61 of the spring (2. The pad may then easilybe drawn from the staif a and be restored by another.

The present arrangement is equally adapted for spectacles as foreyeglasses.

I claim- In combination, lens-frames, spindles supported therefrom,nose-pads having a' plurality of bearing-faces "and loosely mounted onsaid spindles so that they may be rotatably adjusted thereon, and meansengaging the pads to hold them in adjusted position, substantially asdescribed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

cnone KLEINERT.

Witnesses WILHELM WEIDNER, HERMANN BARTSOH.

